<![CDATA[A Plausibly Deniable Experience]]>https://plausiblydeniable.substack.comhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SQhl!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f5aa426-3344-482f-9259-e08eb96d0717_400x400.pngA Plausibly Deniable Experiencehttps://plausiblydeniable.substack.comSubstackFri, 04 Sep 2026 22:52:21 GMT<![CDATA[AI News And The Manufactured Internet | Brian Chau]]>https://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/ai-news-and-the-manufactured-internethttps://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/ai-news-and-the-manufactured-internetThu, 03 Sep 2026 19:58:56 GMTBrian Chau has figured out how to use AI for journalism without producing AI slop: make the models read mountains of documents, then make humans write the story.

Brian is the founder of Effort News, a publication using long-context AI to comb through federal databases, financial records, legal filings, and other giant piles of public data for stories everyone else missed. He joins Lukas and Saila to explain the refugee-resettlement grant investigation that convinced him to launch Effort, why ordinary journalism is often built around stories sources want “placed,” and what changes when you can query an entire government dataset instead.

They also get into why frontier models are becoming better at math and worse at prose; Claude’s sycophancy; the different sources models inherently trust; taxpayer-funded NGOs; the funding behind anti-data-center and anti-AI activism; SBF’s Anthropic investment; Nick Shirley’s fraud counters; the EU’s attack on the open internet; zoning, NIMBYs, giant trucks, and “full-force centrism”; writing separate websites for humans and AIs; why Brian’s p(doom) is negative; and whether Effort can become a new source of truth for the AI age.

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00:00 — “Unaligned NGOs” and the anti-AI money trail
01:06 — Welcome and Brian Chau
02:01 — From machine learning to Effort News
02:47 — Why AI writing keeps getting worse
08:21 — Sycophancy and models that instantly agree with you
09:37 — Which sources different models trust
13:54 — How Effort News finds stories
15:34 — The refugee-resettlement grant investigation
25:00 — Data-first journalism versus planted stories
27:08 — A million AI agents versus government databases
28:58 — Data centers, unions, and political extortion
31:29 — Why Brian is optimistic about the next 20 years
33:19 — Europe, censorship, and the open internet
37:30 — A white pill wrapped in black pills
42:22 — Taxpayer-funded media and manufactured consensus
44:10 — What does it mean for discourse to be “fake”?
44:57 — Who funds anti-data-center activism?
50:13 — Nick Shirley, fraud counters, and due diligence
57:49 — Full-force centrism
58:28 — Zoning, NIMBYs, and the affordability crisis
1:04:04 — “Things can just be better”
1:06:43 — How regulation made trucks enormous
1:09:03 — Rebuilding a shared political reality
1:13:02 — Tucker, Candace, and the right-wing influencer problem
1:15:13 — How Effort News is funded
1:16:00 — Who gets to shape AI’s values?
1:17:09 — Writing one website for humans and another for AIs
1:20:16 — How much of culture is manufactured?
1:22:50 — The anti-AI funding network
1:24:47 — SBF’s attempted crypto regulatory monopoly
1:27:06 — Why Brian’s p(doom) is negative
1:29:01 — The UK, France, and nuclear instability
1:31:01 — The accidental founding of Effort News
1:32:25 — Subscribers, B2B data, and a future newswire
1:35:24 — Building a new source of truth
1:39:29 — The Plausibly Deniable exclusive
1:42:48 — Publicists, the Vice mafia, and founder-led media
1:47:13 — Effort’s team and the disgusting CTA
1:48:13 — Pre-made Twitter threads and “we read AI text”
1:49:36 — Why real scoops sit next to total slop
1:54:24 — Substack, data visualization, and $80,000 subscriptions
2:02:23 — Final plugs and farewell

]]><![CDATA[The Reindustrialization Of America | Jakob Diepenbrock]]>https://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/the-reindustrialization-of-americahttps://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/the-reindustrialization-of-americaThu, 27 Aug 2026 19:02:35 GMTJakob Diepenbrock is running a hard-tech fund from El Segundo, backing young engineers building defense, manufacturing, robotics, energy, and other critical industries. He joins Lukas and Saila to explain how he skipped the credential ladder, built Discipulus Ventures, raised a fund by treating the process like a startup launch, and why Anduril’s breakout made defense tech the allocation everyone suddenly wanted.

They also discuss cost-plus military contracts, drones versus soldiers, DJI’s domination of creator hardware, automated American textile factories, why humanoid robots are TikTok bait, insectoid factory machines, American-made peptides, ethanol and farm lobbies, machine financing at 30%, the tacit knowledge trapped in aging machinists, lowballing retiring boomers for obscure industrial monopolies, founder bench-press requirements, a Vegas magician who broke reality, CIA remote viewing, UFOs as Space Force marketing, medical isotope enrichment, Russian shell companies, and Germany’s reverse house-flipping bureaucracy.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro and Sponsors

01:25 The Substack Payment Processor Is Finally Fixed

05:00 Turning the Podcast Into a Call to Action

07:08 Meet Jakob / Long-Distance Running Is Adult Self-Harm

09:19 El Segundo, Chamath, and the Defense-Tech Wave

11:17 Why Hard Tech Belongs in El Segundo

14:40 Starting a Fund Without Credentials

17:29 Venture Capital Is Crappy Beta

19:23 Raising a Fund Like a Startup

22:46 The 22-Year-Old Fund Manager Problem

24:36 Why Defense Tech Suddenly Became Cool

27:27 Elon, DOGE, and the $20 Million Missile

29:05 How Cost-Plus Contracting Broke Defense

30:00 The Defense Industry Is Smaller Than You Think

32:19 Political Risk for Government Contractors

35:17 Robotics Is the Next Bubble

36:29 Reindustrialization and the American-Made Premium

40:00 DJI, Drones, and the Captured Creator Economy

42:03 “Reindustrialized” Sweaters Made in China

43:47 Automated American Textiles

47:59 Humanoid Robots Are Boomer Bait

50:51 Insect Robots, Chemicals, and Ethanol

54:58 RFK’s Fitness Camps and American-Made Peptides

57:11 Bioreactors and Cheaper Drug Manufacturing

58:23 Lowballing Boomers for Strategic Companies

1:03:51 America Runs on Three Old Guys and a Notebook

1:08:37 Grants, Tariffs, and Supply-Chain Sovereignty

1:12:38 Wire Harnesses and 30% Machine Financing

1:17:08 El Segundo Culture and the Founder Bench Test

1:21:48 The Vegas Magician Who Broke Reality

1:24:49 CIA Remote Viewing, UFOs, and Space Force

1:28:33 Medical Isotopes and Russian Shell Companies

1:31:05 Germany’s Reverse House-Flipping Program

1:33:20 Mandatory Call to Action

]]><![CDATA[The Bliss of Confirmation Bias: Why Angry Birds Was Fascist]]>https://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/the-bliss-of-confirmation-bias-whyhttps://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/the-bliss-of-confirmation-bias-whyThu, 20 Aug 2026 18:59:05 GMTCovfefe Anon returns to Plausibly Deniable to discuss the bliss of confirmation bias: how to engineer a viral take, why the edit may be the native medium of the 21st century, and why Angry Birds might be the most fascist movie ever made. Lukas, Saila and Covfefe review films they have not seen, explain why ironic criticism only makes its targets cooler, and consider whether Confirmation Bias is actually a better name for the podcast.

The conversation also covers Ryan Gosling, Barbenheimer, James Bond, public-domain superheroes and AI remakes, Joe Biden and the death of the presidency, girl-avatar growth hacks, GPUs and matrix multiplication, phonics and grade inflation, business-school arbitrage, solo-podcast psychosis, radicalized wives, Twitter jannies, boomer game, hair-loss hopium, live-editing reality, friendship simulators, freedom of association, and the “blood diamonds attack” on crypto.

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Contact: plausiblydeniableshow@gmail.com

Timestamps:

00:00 How to Engineer a Viral Take
01:02 Intro and Sponsors
01:48 Reviewing The Odyssey Without Watching It
05:15 Spoilers, Millennial Slop, and the Last Shared Culture
10:40 Meta-Level Lying, LARPing, and Intrigue-Maxing
17:24 Ryan Gosling’s Drive and the Single-Mom Concession
20:28 Barbenheimer and the Fascism of Angry Birds
24:03 Ryan Gosling vs. Angry Birds and the Communist Sequel
30:00 James Bond Rides Bitch
32:55 Public-Domain Superheroes and AI Remakes
34:11 Activated Charcoal and the Final Original Podcast Episode
37:12 Patrick Bateman, Starship Troopers, and Failed Irony
39:44 GEOBODEN and Joe Biden’s Final Act
42:58 The Presidency Is a Puppet Show
46:49 The Edit Is the Native Medium of the 21st Century
50:02 One Reader and Ninety-Nine Edit Watchers
52:09 How to Manufacture a Viral Take
54:46 The Girl-Avatar Growth Hack
58:39 GPUs Accidentally Built Superintelligence
1:02:14 Schooling, Phonics, and the End of Reading
1:07:11 Harvard Sells Credentials, Not Education
1:12:03 Business School, Bar Prep, and Clicker Arbitrage
1:15:36 Solo Podcasting Causes Mental Illness
1:17:34 Candace Owens and the Radicalized Wife
1:22:20 Men Lead, Women Follow, and Soy Turns You Into a Deer
1:24:09 Should We Rebrand as Confirmation Bias?
1:26:30 Emotional Programming and Mental Illness as a Defense
1:29:18 The Brain-Damage Loophole
1:33:27 Mom Gets Banned and Twitter Jannies Get Rich
1:38:22 Boomer Opportunity Stories and “May I Meet You?”
1:42:46 Hot-Girl Signaling, Hair-Loss Hopium, and Recycled Tweets
1:46:15 Broken Twitter Search, Outsourced Editing, and Dog Clickers
1:49:48 Live-Editing Reality and the Ex Who Shrunk Seven Inches
1:52:33 The Bliss of Confirmation Bias
1:55:08 Friendship Simulators and the Blood-Diamonds Attack
1:58:54 Freedom of Association and Memetic Stink
2:02:20 Outro: Should We Rebrand?

]]><![CDATA[Extreme Edge Decay and the Total Pandification of the Human Race]]>https://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/extreme-edge-decay-and-the-totalhttps://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/extreme-edge-decay-and-the-totalFri, 14 Aug 2026 01:11:04 GMTLukas and Saila return for a paid-subscriber bonus episode about why marriage was a social technology we somehow undeveloped, modern dating is a catastrophic timerug, and every product that becomes popular is eventually value-engineered into garbage.

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]]><![CDATA[Coinflipping and the Linguistic Destruction of America]]>https://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/coinflipping-and-the-linguistic-destructionhttps://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/coinflipping-and-the-linguistic-destructionThu, 13 Aug 2026 18:48:51 GMTAmerica has become a coin-flipping economy—and the language we use now punishes anyone foolish enough to take things seriously.

Lukas and Saila discuss AI psychosis and a 76,000-contact CRM, the fragmented B2B SaaS economy, travel-authorization scams, tax software, W-2 employment, lawsuits, bankruptcy, fake sponsorships, macro investors with monkey pictures, crypto traders posting inspirational corn after blowing up, and Costco gold arbitrage.

Then they turn to the linguistic destruction of America: how “try-hard,” “glazing,” the IDGAF war, and “Woke One” made effort, admiration, accountability, and sincerity embarrassing.

Also discussed: DeepSeek’s immigrant work ethic, aggressive safety razors, safe-horny culture, podcasters as male sex workers, the office LARP keeping the American economy alive, and why titles and thumbnails matter more than the podcast itself.

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Timestamps:

00:00 “Try-Hard” Caused Societal Damage
01:06 Intro and Sponsors
01:17 Ransoming Product Recommendations
02:14 The Beach-House Food Disaster
04:32 AI Psychosis and the 76,000-Contact CRM
07:29 The B2B SaaS Lego Scam
09:11 Travel Authorization Scams and Private FCC Stings
16:31 Tax Software, Professional Cartels, and the W-2
21:02 There Are No Winners in Court
25:54 JD Vance, Europe, and Girlboss Diplomacy
29:35 Fake Sponsorships and the Prometheus Statue
33:13 Corporate Norwood Haircuts and Hormone Twitter
37:31 The Crypto Trader Starts Posting Corn
40:10 Gold, T-Bills, and Macro Monkey Pictures
46:17 The Coin-Flipping Economy
50:00 The Collective Psychic Force Field and the Big Kahuna
52:22 Outflanking Every Doomer by Going Further Back
53:51 Costco Gold Arbitrage
56:29 Shamelessness Is the Last Remaining Edge
57:49 Podcasters Are Male Sex Workers
1:00:54 Crypto Nostalgia and DeepSeek’s Work Ethic
1:03:00 The Aggressive Razor Ambush
1:06:19 Smoothness, Bottoming, and Safe Horny
1:09:44 “Woke One” and the Great Fugue State
1:15:16 The IDGAF War
1:16:20 How “Try-Hard” Damaged Civilization
1:18:40 The Office Worker Who Pretends to Be Busy
1:21:54 Your Breeding Fetish Came Free
1:22:43 “Glazing” and Linguistic Destruction
1:25:18 Titles, Thumbnails, and the Podcast Meta
1:29:47 The New Dating Gift Economy
1:31:48 Covfefe Anon Becomes a Permanent Houseguest
1:32:43 Childhood Obliviousness

]]><![CDATA[Cooking With Arsenic: Why Cops Can't Shoot Pet Cats]]>https://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/cooking-with-arsenic-why-cops-canthttps://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/cooking-with-arsenic-why-cops-cantThu, 06 Aug 2026 19:41:19 GMTLukas and Saila talk about an accidental arsenic-poisoning bonfire, frustrating hospital visits, bizarre injuries, the Hunter Biden–Nick Fuentes interview, Gavin Newsom, European manufacturing, aging, astrology and viral internet tools, gender and dating dynamics, rural life, bulk food, FBI encounters, online anonymity, food quality, RFK Jr., AI culture, Silicon Valley politics, cats, dogs, strange neighbors, self-deception and AI-assisted coding.

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]]><![CDATA[Private Money And The Norwood Supremacy: w/ Mert]]>https://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/private-money-and-the-norwood-supremacyhttps://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/private-money-and-the-norwood-supremacyTue, 28 Jul 2026 19:18:01 GMTMert Mumtaz, co-founder and CEO of Helius, joins Lukas and Saila to explain why privacy is crypto’s unfinished business, why he sees Zcash as encrypted—or “better”—Bitcoin, and what the Ironwood upgrade means for the Orchard pool, supply integrity, formal verification and quantum recoverability.

They compare Zcash and Monero, unpack fungibility and tainted coins, discuss private finance on Solana and Helius’s work with Light Protocol, and examine why public blockchains risk becoming a global financial panopticon. The conversation then moves into AI, DeFi security, startup hiring, company names, Slavic relationship theory, emergency flowers and the collapse of straightforward Western dating.

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0:00 Monero, criminals and why privacy is a choice
2:58 Intro
3:04 Sponsors
3:18 Bald looksmaxxing and the matte-head meta
6:24 Why Mert became a Zcash bull
9:15 Privacy is crypto’s final frontier
9:26 Project Tachyon and scaling Zcash
11:02 Private Bitcoin and encrypted money
11:29 Crypto built a global financial panopticon
12:15 Cypherpunks, Bitcoin and the origins of private money
13:52 Zero-knowledge proofs explained
16:07 How Zcash works
19:03 Bitcoin → Ethereum → Solana → privacy
20:00 Privacy’s “1,000x” opportunity
20:28 Zcash culture and the “Mossad-backed privacy coin”
23:30 The Orchard vulnerability and what happened
25:20 How the counterfeiting vulnerability worked
26:51 Ironwood, the new pool and formal verification
28:14 Quantum recoverability and faster Zcash nodes
29:33 Buying the ZEC capitulation
31:00 Valuing private internet money
33:29 Anti-indicators, coin flippers and risk appetite
37:36 Korean crypto gambling
38:44 Why Korea has no bald men
39:57 Mert’s bald origin story
41:49 Choosing work you will not regret
43:57 Zcash vs Monero
45:02 Encryption versus obfuscation
46:31 Complete privacy versus probabilistic privacy
47:58 Criminals are not cryptographic geniuses
50:00 Privacy is choice—not a product for criminals
51:03 Public ledgers turn your life into a prediction market
51:50 Why crypto without privacy can be worse than banking
53:29 Divorce, private keys and asset disclosure
54:08 Zcash, smart contracts and DeFi
55:02 The Swiss bank account in the cloud
56:00 Why normal people think Bitcoin is private
57:42 Is Zcash simply “better Bitcoin”?
58:26 Fungibility, tainted coins and Canadian truckers
59:07 Zcash as freedom money
1:00:53 Low-entropy money and quantum risk
1:02:00 Regulation and wealth taxes
1:03:31 ZEC as an antidote to wealth confiscation
1:05:47 Dubai, Singapore and financial sovereignty
1:07:11 Healthcare systems and revenue loops
1:10:07 Europe’s pension math and future wealth seizures
1:11:48 Age verification and scanning encrypted messages
1:13:48 Why Italian villas are so cheap
1:16:49 Mert’s path from Coinbase to Helius
1:18:01 Building infrastructure for Solana
1:19:40 Why financial blockchains need privacy
1:21:11 Helius, Light Protocol and privacy on Solana
1:22:00 Solana privacy versus Zcash
1:22:26 Tornado Cash and developer liability
1:24:25 Why you cannot arrest the CEO of Zcash
1:24:43 Privacy networks and anonymity sets
1:27:05 Private neobanks versus replacing Swiss banks
1:28:07 Mert’s Solana and Zcash calls
1:28:44 Crypto hostile takeovers
1:30:00 Why company names matter
1:34:15 AI, employment and singularity skepticism
1:35:34 Everyone has access to the same AI
1:37:00 The anti-AI-slop rule
1:39:25 AI makes difficult programming languages accessible
1:42:00 AI and crypto security
1:42:55 The software crisis
1:44:59 Formally verified protocols
1:45:52 Why DeFi users must become more selective
1:50:43 PumpFun as a preview of the AI economy
1:52:23 Distribution is harder than generating products
1:54:02 Zcash and the first production ZK-SNARK
1:54:25 Software is not the hardest part of business
1:54:49 LinkedIn and corporate performance
1:56:28 How Helius filters job applicants
1:57:02 Why business-development hires should negotiate
1:59:37 Slavic women and founder pressure-testing
2:03:15 Emergency apology flowers
2:03:49 Flower cultures around the world
2:06:00 Why Western dating has become indirect
2:09:00 Situationships and traditional dating
2:12:02 Chivalry and the street-side rule
2:15:00 Moscow glamour versus American pajamas
2:18:00 Crypto conferences and closing

]]><![CDATA[The Libertarian Addiction to Losing and New Hampshire Nationalism: W/ Jeremy Kauffman]]>https://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/the-libertarian-addiction-to-losinghttps://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/the-libertarian-addiction-to-losingThu, 23 Jul 2026 18:56:44 GMTJeremy Kauffman joins the Positively Deniable Experience to explain how spending a few hours per week on libertarian politics helped throw the national Libertarian Party into chaos—and why he believes the Free State movement is succeeding in New Hampshire while the national party remains committed to losing.

Jeremy recounts the rise of LBRY and Odysee, the SEC case that destroyed the company, crypto’s early generation of true believers, and the attempt to build a censorship-resistant alternative to YouTube. He also explains how the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire grew its X account from roughly 4,000 to 110,000 followers and why political influence increasingly flows from culture, social media, and status rather than policy papers.

The conversation also covers the Free State Project, concentrating committed political minorities in one state, anonymity and trust online, New Hampshire’s economy and quality of life, prediction markets, AI-model bets, right-to-try laws, Lumina, biohacking, GLP-1s, housing, fertility, dating, Palantir, and the difference between efficient and ineffective government.

Guest: Jeremy Kauffman

Brought to you by Zcash, Polymarket, CitizenX, and Passage Press.

]]><![CDATA[Escaping The IQ Shredder: with Spandrell]]>https://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/escaping-the-iq-shredder-with-spandrellhttps://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/escaping-the-iq-shredder-with-spandrellThu, 16 Jul 2026 19:04:51 GMTSpandrell joins us to explain the “IQ Shredder”: how successful cities attract ambitious, intelligent people from across the world, place them into a hypercompetitive rat race, and then make it nearly impossible for them to reproduce.

We discuss why fertility is collapsing across virtually every developed society, whether Israel has escaped the trend, why financial incentives have repeatedly failed, and what governments could realistically do to make family formation prestigious again.

Spandrell also explains Bio-Leninism—his theory of how political systems recruit people with few alternatives and convert personal disadvantage into institutional loyalty. We connect it to the strange people selected by modern politics, why competent people tend to leave government, and why the political right struggles to build a durable machine.

Later, we get into Spandrell’s life in Japan and China, how China changed under Xi Jinping, the decline of Twitter, the possible return of long-form blogging, Substack’s monetization advantage, Urbit’s future, AI-assisted development, and why Chinese companies can conquer entire industries without making their shareholders rich.

https://spandrell.com

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00:00 Loyalty only lasts as long as your options
02:12 Introduction and Spandrell’s early blogging
04:30 Meeting Nick Land in Shanghai
06:54 Singapore and the origin of the “IQ Shredder”
08:36 How successful cities erase their best bloodlines
10:03 Can any modern country fix its birth rate?
10:45 Why Israel is different
15:15 Conflict, clan competition and fertility
17:00 Why upper-middle-class children seem impossibly expensive
22:10 Which pro-family policies might actually work?
25:45 Making parenthood prestigious again
27:15 Could China force a fertility pivot?
31:11 Spandrell’s plan for restoring fertility
32:27 Cheap luxuries, expensive necessities
34:22 The real cost of finding a spouse
36:00 Do women understand what men want?
39:00 Marriage, divorce and romantic loyalty
52:20 Don’t marry someone you had to convince
55:34 The theory of Bio-Leninism
58:41 What working inside a political party taught Spandrell
01:02:18 Optionality is the inverse of loyalty
01:05:05 Why competent people abandon politics
01:07:15 Why the political right keeps losing
01:11:36 Spandrell’s path from Japan to China
01:22:37 Why Vietnam might be the next frontier
01:23:26 When China started functioning
01:25:33 Is blogging becoming valuable again?
01:27:30 Substack, monetization and online writing
01:30:00 Why alternative payment systems keep failing
01:32:10 Can an anonymous writer successfully start over?
01:34:09 The failure of “abundance” liberalism
01:37:52 AOC, Mamdani and the future of the Democratic Party
01:40:10 Why competent right-wingers avoid government
01:44:11 What happened to the online right?
01:46:49 Can remote work defeat the IQ Shredder?
01:47:19 Spandrell’s realistic fertility solution
01:50:15 Does working from home actually work?
01:53:18 Visible privileges for large families
01:54:30 Adoption, incentives and unintended consequences
01:55:34 Should parents have greater political power?
01:57:03 How boomers dominate democratic politics
01:59:08 Did old people financially destroy civilization?
02:01:00 Is Urbit still alive?
02:01:42 AI is accelerating Urbit development
02:03:11 Censorship and the case for personal servers
02:05:13 Why posting intelligently on Twitter feels pointless
02:07:14 Can foreigners make money in China?
02:08:59 Why Chinese companies don’t reward shareholders
02:11:28 Closing

]]><![CDATA[PD After Dark: Death by Peptide, Capitalist Hallucinations and Total Plumber Supremacy]]>https://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/pd-after-dark-death-by-peptide-capitalisthttps://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/pd-after-dark-death-by-peptide-capitalistWed, 08 Jul 2026 02:55:10 GMTIn this bonus After Dark episode, the guys spiral from Lucas’s mysterious supplement-induced sickness into vagueposting, Twitter dry spells, dating app archetypes, fake sales, wage theft semantics, phones in dreams, race-guessing games, LLM lab sponsorship dreams, crypto marketers, home renovation masculinity, plumbers, parenting, filler words, and why …

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]]><![CDATA[Nukes are Good For You, Actually]]>https://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/nukes-are-good-for-you-actuallyhttps://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/nukes-are-good-for-you-actuallyWed, 08 Jul 2026 01:20:08 GMTThe boys return under plague conditions to discuss why nukes might be less socially destructive than dating discourse, the ethics of height-maxxing children with growth hormone, the “ship it, I guess” approach to biohacking, trad life vs gene editing, Europe’s anti-AC death drive, Singapore, Yarvin, Nick Land, cats, prediction markets, bought accounts, World Cup confusion, and why prediction markets might just be manifestation markets.

Sponsored by:

Polymarket: https://polymarket.com

Zcash: https://z.cash

CitizenX: https://citizenx.com

Network Press: https://network.press

_______________________________

Plausibly Deniable: https://plausiblydeniable.org

Lukas: https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQ

Saila: https://x.com/sailaunderscore

0:00 Nukes vs dating discourse

1:26 Intro + sponsors

2:46 Growth hormone for short kids

6:00 Correcting disorders vs height-maxxing

9:17 Short women, short sons, and dating math

13:13 How tall is too tall?

16:23 “Ship it, I guess” and gene editing

18:35 Ted Kaczynski as meme philosopher

23:15 The “media arena” problem

25:04 Pets, illness, and irrational coping

27:20 Copper peptides and supplement stupidity

31:26 Remineralizing toothpaste and managing 100 trillion variables

34:24 Everyone is a drug addict now

38:36 When the Giga Chad opinion is dumb

41:43 The green screen blanket era

45:41 Nukes don’t matter theory

47:59 Radiation poisoning vs modern dysfunction

50:22 Compliment euphemisms and dating language

53:51 The mommy-dommy tangent

56:48 Do we actually want tradition?

59:50 Trad or supercomputer gene editing

1:02:18 Brian Johnson, rationality, and religion

1:04:07 Europe’s heatwave and anti-AC ideology

1:06:41 Singapore, order, and political realism

1:12:00 America’s smaller future

1:15:50 The K-shaped economy: AI or fraud

1:18:23 Are consultants ready for AI?

1:19:15 The singularity as a crash GIF

1:21:00 Everything is destroyed and that’s beautiful

1:25:24 Universal suffrage, kings, and weird politics

1:27:03 Yarvin in San Francisco

1:29:42 Becoming Nick Land

1:32:22 Cats vs dogs

1:38:54 Prediction markets and insider information

1:42:17 Does paying people more change behavior?

1:44:29 Americans pretending to care about soccer

1:53:41 Millennials vs Zoomers

1:56:26 Bought accounts and viral posting

1:57:42 How much is an X account worth?

1:59:23 Nikita, X payouts, and not drawing aggro

2:02:21 2026 midterm markets

2:05:30 Prediction markets as manifestation markets

2:06:22 Bonus episodes on Substack

2:07:42 Closing fever/green screen delirium

]]><![CDATA[The Sensitive Old Man Problem]]>https://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/the-sensitive-old-man-problemhttps://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/the-sensitive-old-man-problemWed, 08 Jul 2026 01:19:48 GMTLukas and Saila return from San Francisco with takes on city discourse, scam calls, GLP-1s, power-law dating, Elon’s financial engineering, Polymarket political markets, RFK Jr., airport lounge arbitrage, SFO baggage purgatory, “not financial advice” disclaimers, pharmaceutical ads, weed, birth control, IQ-tiered libertarianism, and why every abstract argument eventually becomes a dating take.

Sponsored by:

Polymarket: https://polymarket.com

Zcash: https://z.cash

CitizenX: https://citizenx.com

Network Press: https://network.press

_______________________________

Plausibly Deniable: https://plausiblydeniable.org

Lukas: https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQ

Saila: https://x.com/sailaunderscore

0:00 San Francisco safety, homeless discourse, and wanting something to happen

3:00 Scam calls, robocalls, lost wallets, and why phones are unusable

5:44 Intro, sponsors, and the first Plausibly Deniable employee

8:30 Listener demographics, microwaving your brain, and PD setup talk

10:00 The muted Bachelorette split-screen strategy

10:43 San Francisco in the Twitter bio and coastal-elite accusations

14:50 “Just pay the taxes, bro” and California cope

18:18 GLP-1s, hunger, desire, alcohol, and biological side effects

20:15 Hunger receptors, carbs, sleep, and social calibration

23:20 Power laws in wealth, cities, dating, and status

25:54 Elon Musk liquidity, SpaceX shares, and private-market weirdness

28:00 Elon’s all-stock empire and the fake-perfect S-1

30:00 Low-float IPOs, crypto traders, and baby’s first pump

33:24 Grocery shopping as the ideal first date

35:00 Public anthropology, grocery-store flirting, and social passes

40:14 Sensitive young men, sensitive old men, and the empath/sociopath problem

41:39 Polymarket: Vance, Rubio, Tucker, Nikki Haley, and GOP nominee odds

47:30 Democrats as the party of rich white women

50:07 RFK Jr., Kennedy aura, voice problems, and outsider politics

53:00 ER dehydration, DIY electrolyte ratios, Sprite, and Gatorade

56:00 Why every abstract argument becomes a dating take

57:37 Garden leave, severance, and explaining tech jobs to normal people

58:48 Tracing Woodgrains, disclaimers, and “not financial advice”

1:02:35 Pharmaceutical ads, WebMD sales pitches, and legal disclaimers

1:03:59 Birth control, weed, fertility, and long-term health tradeoffs

1:07:21 Libertarianism, paternalism, and unlocking drugs by IQ score

1:07:58 The IQ-tiered drunk-driving proposal

1:10:00 Alcohol, reaction time, weed concentrates, and useful hangovers

1:11:30 Tracing Woodgrains, furries, lawyers, and credibility laundering

1:14:40 Yudkowsky’s meme glasses and hostile interviews

1:15:08 Guest screening calls and why podcasting is harder than people think

1:18:03 Airport lounges, Amex economics, salmon, broccoli, and disgust-response flexing

1:19:56 Dessert etiquette, eating disorders, and what not to say

1:20:26 SFO baggage purgatory: Delta, United, and no actual ticket

1:24:43 Explaining modern culture to boomers

1:25:00 Escorts, dating, and embarrassing relationship structures

1:28:56 Situationships as straight lavender marriages

1:30:12 The life-checklisting meme

1:33:21 GLP-1 relationship study and “relationshiped persons”

1:35:04 Cohabitation, relationship definitions, and survey weirdness

1:39:30 Podcasting as marriage theory

1:40:32 The “Obsession” movie discourse

1:45:12 Work mode, meetings, and lying about when you have to leave

1:50:08 Friend-zoned men, bears, and male slave friends

1:51:32 Girls in tech, attention complaints, and bad-faith incentives

1:55:29 Allowing people dignity in relationships

1:55:46 Instagram models, humiliation, and basic partner etiquette

1:59:01 Twitter likes, relationships, and never getting too comfortable

2:00:17 Twitter personas vs real-life personalities

2:00:51 The new Chinese AI model, ZAI, and Lukas victory-lapping

2:01:49 Closing

]]><![CDATA[The Raw Meat Diet: Extreme Weight Loss via Food Poisoning]]>https://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/the-raw-meat-diet-extreme-weighthttps://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/the-raw-meat-diet-extreme-weightTue, 07 Jul 2026 23:55:17 GMTLukas records through food poisoning while the boys recap San Francisco, Bay Area house parties, Twitter people becoming real, unlimited oysters, Crime George, social minefields, Uber drivers, crypto trading, Modern Warfare 2, travel degeneracy, lost wallets, coconut water, Ray Peat breathing, Veblen goods, publicists, and whether having a podcast has made normal social interaction impossible.

Sponsored by:

Polymarket: https://polymarket.com
Zcash: https://z.cash
CitizenX: https://citizenx.com
Network Press: https://network.press

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Lukas: https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQ
Saila: https://x.com/sailaunderscore

Chapters:

0:00 - Crime George
1:51 - Welcome back / Lukas has the plague
4:49 - How Lukas somehow didn't get sick earlier
7:04 - SF social life becomes dangerous
9:11 - Food poisoning as a weight-loss arc
10:00 - Peptides, Reda, and dysphoria
12:20 - Lukas gets white-pilled
14:23 - Bay Area house parties
16:42 - The suit hack at SF parties
18:00 - Unlimited oysters and suspicious abundance
21:15 - Meeting Twitter accounts in real life
22:00 - Everyone is lying about height
23:00 - San Francisco rent and income realities
24:10 - Looping AI overlays
24:49 - Is Lukas juiced?
26:14 - Walking 20,000 steps in SF
26:43 - Homeless biomes
30:00 - Crime George returns
32:00 - Disheveled podcasting
35:00 - Social climbing and SF party dynamics
40:00 - Podcast lore makes dating worse
43:30 - Grok as internet argument referee
50:00 - Uber drivers, market structure, and SpaceX IPOs
55:00 - The anti-social corner at the house party
1:00:00 - Lukas's extreme sociability range
1:02:00 - Bay Area housing roulette
1:05:00 - Crypto trading styles
1:10:00 - Modern Warfare 2 nostalgia
1:15:00 - SF weather complaints
1:20:00 - Travel mode and neglected responsibilities
1:25:00 - Alcohol, hangovers, and forbidden tactics
1:30:00 - The bad airplane seatmate
1:33:00 - Losing the Amex card
1:35:00 - Recovering a lost wallet through Uber
1:40:00 - Coconut water and looksmaxxing accusations
1:42:00 - Ray Peat, bag breathing, and CO2
1:48:00 - Veblen goods and luxury pricing
1:51:00 - Publicists and how articles happen
1:55:00 - Podcast listeners in the wild
1:58:00 - Respecting the audience / actual cut

]]><![CDATA[Beyond Dual Citizenship: The Case for Becoming a Rootless Cosmopolitan]]>https://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/beyond-dual-citizenship-the-casehttps://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/beyond-dual-citizenship-the-caseTue, 07 Jul 2026 23:50:04 GMTNEED SOME PASSPORTS??
https://citizenx.com/?ref=PlausiblyDeniable

Alex from CitizenX joins Plausibly Deniable to explain the strange, funny, and increasingly important world of buying citizenship.

We talk about why wealthy people are collecting passports, how citizenship by investment actually works, why Europe is cracking down on "golden passport" programs, and why more people are treating passports as geopolitical insurance. Alex breaks down the difference between residency, citizenship, and passports; the main tiers of citizenship programs; why El Salvador's passport is different; and why places like Switzerland, Singapore, the UAE, Hong Kong, and the U.S. keep attracting millionaires even as the global order gets more unstable.

We also get into exit taxes, global taxation, real estate risk, prepper psychology, offshore banking, prediction markets, insider trading rules, and why the best flex might not be a Rolex anymore - it might be seven passports.

Sponsored by:

Polymarket: https://polymarket.com
Zcash: https://z.cash
CitizenX: https://citizenx.com
Network Press: https://network.press

_______________________________

Plausibly Deniable: https://plausiblydeniable.org

Lukas: https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQ
Saila: https://x.com/sailaunderscore

Chapters:

00:00 Passport flexing is the new Rolex flex
00:46 Intro: Alex from CitizenX
01:36 What CitizenX does
03:00 Is "buying a passport" actually legal?
05:51 Why the EU hates citizenship by investment
07:11 Rich people want poor-country passports
10:01 Who buys second passports?
11:36 Crypto, trucker protests, and country risk
12:46 Global taxation and FATCA
14:34 The EU asset register
17:15 Where wealthy people move
19:12 Why UAE, Singapore, and Switzerland are hard to naturalize in
20:49 Why Americans give up citizenship
22:40 The decline of the U.S. passport
25:12 Brazil, BRICS, and neutral passports
27:31 The future of passports and individual surveillance
29:28 The three tiers of citizenship programs
30:49 The cheapest passports
33:33 Caribbean citizenship programs
36:29 Germany, conscription, and European demand
38:45 Geopolitical chaos as passport marketing
41:13 Pavel Durov, UAE citizenship, and state protection
43:35 El Salvador's million-dollar passport
45:21 Where millionaires are moving
48:10 How to design a good citizenship program
53:00 What passport programs actually cost
57:00 "Donation" vs buying citizenship
1:01:00 Can you own too many passports?
1:05:00 Passport portfolios and the ultimate flex
1:09:00 Exit vs voice: preppers, bunkers, and passports
1:13:00 Drafts, national identity, and exit planning
1:18:00 Privacy, Swiss servers, and client secrecy
1:23:00 Remote islands, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay
1:28:00 U.S. polarization and internal exit
1:34:00 Passports as downside protection
1:39:00 Real estate as national-risk exposure
1:45:00 Prediction markets and forecasting
1:50:00 Insider trading, regulation, and Polymarket
1:56:00 Final riffs and outro

]]><![CDATA[Vegas: Ragebait Advertising and The 'Idea' of Fun]]>https://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/vegas-ragebait-advertising-and-thehttps://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/vegas-ragebait-advertising-and-theTue, 07 Jul 2026 23:49:29 GMTVegas is no longer pretending to be normal.

This episode starts with the Enhanced Games, Polymarket's viral "steroid Olympics" coverage, the strange incentives around performance enhancement, and why people misunderstood what the first Enhanced Games actually proved. Then we get into the anthropology of modern Vegas: male models, status games, fake DJ sets, clubbing where nobody talks to each other, and a dating culture where the photo has replaced the actual interaction.

We also cover TSA house rules, American tort law, why healthcare and contact lenses are so much more annoying in the U.S., European models reading Curtis Yarvin, the collapse of normal social scripts, and why every modern public interaction feels like five layers of game theory.

Sponsored by Polymarket, Zcash, CitizenX, and Passage Press.

Sponsored by:

Polymarket: https://polymarket.com
Zcash: https://z.cash
CitizenX: https://citizenx.com
Network Press: https://network.press

_______________________________

Plausibly Deniable: https://plausiblydeniable.org

Lukas: https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQ
Saila: https://x.com/sailaunderscore

Chapters:

0:00 - Dating apps, girls trying men's profiles, and A/B-tested pickup lines
5:00 - Dating zones, cold approach, and clubs as "PvP zones"
10:00 - The photo replacing the actual interaction
15:30 - Vegas DJs, Zedd, bad drops, and fake live performance
23:30 - Modern clubs as Instagram stories in person
30:00 - Boomer dating advice and the post-meta dating world
36:30 - Intro / welcome back / sponsors
38:00 - Enhanced Games, Vegas parties, and the weird elite crowd
41:00 - Gas station dick pills, sildenafil, and medical gray zones
44:00 - TSA house rules and the safety razor incident
48:00 - Contact lenses, U.S. healthcare friction, and tort law
53:00 - Playground liability and burning down the backyard structure
55:00 - Vegas clubbing, male models, and VIP gender-ratio engineering
1:02:00 - Snapchat, looksmaxxing, and scripted nightclub behavior
1:05:00 - European models reading Curtis Yarvin
1:07:00 - Polymarket's Enhanced Games tweets
1:11:00 - Steroids, genetics, and why the Enhanced Games results were misunderstood
1:16:00 - Usain Bolt, doping speculation, and the $10M bounty
1:22:00 - Betting, prediction markets, and people needing skin in the game
1:30:00 - Capitalism, shareholders, and weird startup/product incentives
1:38:00 - Streamers, cameras, and online performance as labor
1:48:00 - Rich people, models, and party status games
1:56:00 - Podcast production, green screens, and making video work
2:05:00 - Online mobs, being clipped, and reputational risk
2:12:00 - Streamer infrastructure and jealousy over simple phone setups
2:20:00 - Fame, money, and the current content economy
2:30:00 - Medicine, hair-loss drugs, and information quality online
2:35:00 - Dating apps return: response-rate meta and soulless optimization
2:43:00 - The girl who wanted the photo, not the interaction
2:50:00 - Why older people can't understand modern clubbing
2:55:00 - Zedd drops, fake DJing, and the audience losing energy
3:00:00 - Vegas as fake degeneracy and the private jet analogy
3:07:00 - Boomer dating advice, wax seals, and outdated social scripts
3:15:00 - Approaching, shoulder-checking, and broken in-person scripts
3:22:00 - Politics, media, and people not knowing other worlds exist
3:30:00 - SF dinners, networking, and the awkwardness of opinion questions
3:38:00 - Consensus reality, social scripts, and closing riffs

]]><![CDATA[Extremely Alternative Medicine, Cooking While Homeless, and The Art of Seduction via Carrier Pidgeon]]>https://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/extremely-alternative-medicine-cookinghttps://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/extremely-alternative-medicine-cookingMon, 18 May 2026 03:19:31 GMTIn this episode of Plausibly Deniable, the boys investigate the greatest arbitrage in modern America: food trucks, male slop, crockpots, Discord servers, fake enterprise software, BlueAnon, healthcare middlemen, manifesto technology, European decline, and a raccoon bite story that probably should have gone to a doctor.

They also get into Polymarket AI model markets, why Discord should just rebrand itself as Slack for adults, why cooking for one person is fake productivity, whether every market can be explained with rugs, and why the modern political internet keeps producing increasingly deranged mythology.

Sponsored by:

Polymarket: https://polymarket.com
Zcash: https://z.cash
CitizenX: https://citizenx.com
Network Press: https://network.press
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Lukas: https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQ
Saila: https://x.com/sailaunderscore

0:00 The Discord server
1:11 Food trucks as an infinite money glitch
3:00 New York rats, mobile kitchens, and food truck hygiene
6:20 Designing the worst possible meat-and-rice truck
7:36 Taipei screen protector middlemen
9:01 Choosing how many middlemen you want
11:01 Polymarket AI model markets and betting against Google
12:35 The Chicago slop truck business plan
14:56 College students, fake poverty, and $20 cookies
17:39 Avocado toast discourse was partly right
20:03 Male slop cooking and Parmesan block meals
21:23 Gluttony, groceries, and eating two pounds of carrots
22:49 Why cooking for one person rarely makes sense
24:22 Food as the least embarrassing status purchase
25:06 Coffee optimization and grocery-store beans
26:23 Crockpots, rice cookers, and the college protein-maxxing solution
28:27 The one-item crockpot food truck
31:02 Men cooking, makeup, skin, and mustaches
34:21 Masculine vs feminine cooking
37:05 Hipster meals, soups, and paella discourse
38:58 Roadrunners, birds, and YouTube Shorts
41:10 Using ChatGPT to rebrand slop as ethnic cuisine
44:42 Low T, testosterone numbers, and androgen receptors
46:49 The Discord server bit returns
48:10 Discord has a great product and cursed branding
51:27 Chinese automaker names and “Beyond Your Dreams” branding
53:03 Current events, Reddit manifestos, and Caltech guy discourse
56:16 Meme careers and people choosing the wrong life path
57:31 Manifesto technology and Kaczynski posting
1:02:26 Kaczynski accounts, bodybuilding, and anti-tech contradictions
1:03:51 Protein myths and science-based lifting people
1:07:48 Real estate markets, boomer sellers, and “I know what I got” pricing
1:09:45 Healthcare explained through rugs and middlemen
1:13:34 Democracy, voting, and the rug analogy collapsing
1:14:54 BlueAnon and assassination-attempt denial
1:20:54 Europe being ten years behind the news cycle
1:22:35 European decline and why talent leaves for the US
1:25:00 Homelessness, food stamps, and urban dysfunction
1:35:00 Restaurant work, service labor, and strange incentive structures
1:40:00 Microplastics, gloves, and restaurant paranoia
1:45:00 The raccoon bite story
1:46:34 Antibiotic-resistant infection and improvised heat treatment
1:51:30 Rabies logic, animal control, and the raccoon test
1:55:00 Wrap-up and sponsor thanks

]]><![CDATA[Enhanced Games: Bioengineered Sports, Ethical Superhumans and Making Your First Billion - w/ Christian Angermayer]]>https://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/enhanced-games-bioengineered-sportshttps://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/enhanced-games-bioengineered-sportsSat, 09 May 2026 03:01:42 GMTChristian Angermeyer joins Plausibly Deniable to discuss the Enhanced Games, performance-enhancing drugs, psychedelic medicine, longevity, telehealth, ambition, and building companies around controversial ideas before they become mainstream.

Christian argues that the debate around performance enhancement is stuck in moral panic, bad incentives, and missing data. He explains why the Enhanced Games are designed not just as a sports spectacle, but as a research and media platform: athletes competing with medically supervised enhancement, data being collected at scale, and a broader business built around health, recovery, and human performance.

We also get into the ethics of PEDs, whether banning enhancement actually harms athletes, why recovery may be the real performance unlock, how psychedelics went from fringe to medical legitimacy, what founders misunderstand about ambition, and Christian’s path from European finance to building and selling a major African banking group.

Absolutely none of this is medical, financial, or spiritual advice


Enhanced Games: https://www.enhanced.com/games

Sponsored by:

Polymarket: https://polymarket.com
Zcash: https://z.cash
CitizenX: https://citizenx.com
Network Press: https://network.press
_______________________________

Plausibly Deniable: https://plausiblydeniable.org

Lukas: https://x.com/SCHIZO_FREQ
Saila: https://x.com/sailaunderscore
Christian: https://x.com/C_Angermayer

00:00 — The moral case for performance enhancement
02:52 — Intro: Christian Angermeyer
03:26 — What are the Enhanced Games?
06:01 — PEDs, medical supervision, and building the first real data set
09:09 — Biohacking, looksmaxing, and body autonomy
14:40 — The Enhanced Games pitch: approved drugs, doctors, and athlete choice
17:14 — Why recovery may matter more than strength
21:09 — Psychedelics, stigma, and using data to change public opinion
22:42 — Which world records could the Enhanced Games break?
24:49 — Are elite athletes already using PEDs?
30:22 — Clean Olympics vs enhanced competition
32:17 — Enhanced Games as a viral sports business
38:12 — Future events: older athletes, celebrities, robots, and combat sports
41:00 — Telehealth, supplements, peptides, and the Red Bull model
47:45 — The data business behind human enhancement
48:47 — Christian’s personal health philosophy and stack
01:00:04 — Can retail investors get exposure to the Enhanced Games?
01:03:00 — Europe, America, ambition, and risk-taking
01:10:00 — Christian’s early career in finance
01:30:35 — Building and selling an African banking group
01:43:00 — Consent, alcohol, drugs, and personal choice
01:50:00 — Christian’s five-point self-improvement framework
02:00:00 — Coming out, identity, and personal narrative
02:15:04 — Psychedelics, therapy, religion, and founders
02:30:32 — What psychedelics actually reveal
02:33:11 — Closing thoughts

]]><![CDATA[The Conservative case for the Machine God - w/ Lomez]]>https://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/the-conservative-case-for-the-machinehttps://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/the-conservative-case-for-the-machineSun, 03 May 2026 01:58:01 GMTLomez joins Plausibly Deniable for a long conversation on the old internet, the rise of online politics, academia, Gamergate, Twitter, AI, prediction markets, publishing, and the strange incentives of modern work.

We talk about Lomez’s path from an early remote job at Google to academia, how 2014-era campus politics pushed him online, the evolution of the dissident right, the social justice warrior era, the shifting meaning of “woke is over,” and how internet subcultures moved from fringe jokes to real political force.

We also get into Passage Press, Lomez’s publishing company, including its role in preserving online writing, publishing controversial or neglected work, and building something closer to the “real economy” than most internet projects. Check out Passage Press and use promo code PD10.

Later, the conversation turns to AI, Claude vs ChatGPT, the tech right, Bannon-style anti-tech populism, X vs YouTube, bot accusations, gender war discourse, office jobs, girlboss marketing, and whether the “normie job” fantasy is actually just another internet mirage.

Make sure to buy lots of books from Passage Press

Promo code PD10 gets you 10% off


Sponsored by:

Polymarket
Zcash
CitizenX
Network Press

Plausibly Deniable

Lukas
Saila
Lomez



0:02:17 — Fake jobs, make-work, and being too close to the real economy
0:03:48 — Introducing Lomez
0:04:30 — Lomez’s early life and getting a remote job at Google
0:06:00 — Human search ranking, porn SEO, and “artisanal Google”
0:10:19 — Leaving tech, traveling, and deciding to become an English professor
0:11:55 — UC Irvine, academia, and the politics of 2014
0:13:02 — Charlie Hebdo, free speech, and campus liberalism
0:15:36 — Why online transgression felt politically meaningful
0:17:21 — Gamergate, gamers, and the online right
0:21:02 — Is woke actually over?
0:24:42 — Early Lomez internet lore: forums, Twitter, sports, and betting
0:30:43 — The old alt-right, Breitbart, Spencer, and Charlottesville
0:34:35 — Passage Press, Scott Greer, and White Pill
0:35:00 — Social justice warriors, Tumblr, and naming the enemy
0:40:00 — Trump, Kavanaugh, liberal coalition discipline, and political hysteria
0:43:19 — Male feminists, the cuttlefish strategy, and dating discourse
0:48:56 — The gender war escalates
0:56:15 — Wirejacking, welfare, work, and the broken social contract
1:05:32 — Passage Press books, QR codes, and preserving internet archives
1:10:11 — Digital censorship, stealth edits, and why print still matters
1:15:05 — Lomez’s doxxing and public-interest journalism
1:25:38 — Polymarket, betting markets, and “selling dollars for 50 cents”
1:30:14 — Scale, inefficiency, local culture, and AI
1:34:00 — Hard takeoff AI and whether acceleration is inevitable
1:45:18 — Nick Land, nation-states, and machine intelligence
1:55:01 — Who fears AI more: the left or the right?
2:08:21 — Sam Altman, OpenAI, Claude, and AI politics
2:13:15 — The tech right, the administration, and institutional conservatism
2:16:20 — Policy battles, post-humanism, Bannon, and anti-tech populism
2:25:00 — San Francisco, crime, tech elites, and urban decline
2:35:00 — Online discourse, media narratives, and AI acceleration
2:50:00 — Political aesthetics, millennial posting, and internet memory
3:06:14 — Bots, real people, hate-farming, and X engagement
3:10:15 — YouTube vs X: analytics, algorithms, and distribution
3:15:00 — The return of the gender war meta
3:25:00 — The normie office fantasy, PF Chang’s, and work wives
3:28:52 — Mega-corporation incentives and fake corporate jobs
3:34:27 — Escape hatches, mortgages, and the terror of being stuck
3:35:47 — Closing thoughts and subscribe

]]><![CDATA[Reasonable Political Centrism w/ The Most Normal Man Alive — Howling Mutant]]>https://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/reasonable-political-centrism-w-thehttps://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/reasonable-political-centrism-w-theSat, 02 May 2026 23:35:30 GMTHowling Mutant joins Plausibly Deniable for a deeply normal conversation about getting doxxed, watching strangers comb through his Goodreads history, and accidentally becoming one of the most powerful men on the world’s least powerful literary platform.

We talk about the absurd mechanics of internet infamy: journalists contacting ex-girlfriends, old coworkers getting dragged into Twitter wars, the humiliation of public book ratings, why everyone becomes weirdly flattering when an anonymous account gets exposed, and how online politics turns even war into an argument about who gets quote-tweeted hardest.

Also covered: right-wing Twitter, Iran discourse, “fell for it again” as a universal worldview, Evangelion pronunciation controversies, AI-generated comedy, bleeping as a content strategy, Passage Press/Network Press, and the dangerous possibility of monetizing Goodreads clout.

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00:00 — Cold open: Howling Mutant’s doxxing joke
02:00 — Who is Howling Mutant, and how the doxxing happened
02:30 — The Goodreads revelation and Delicious Tacos review scandal
04:00 — The Song of Achilles, public book ratings, and Goodreads humiliation
05:00 — Becoming one of the most powerful men on Goodreads
06:00 — Doxxing, internet face reveals, and everyone becoming extremely complimentary
07:20 — Why people are bad at guessing what anonymous posters look like
08:20 — The total victory of gamer and nerd culture
10:00 — What happens when a subculture wins too hard
11:45 — Losing trust in mainstream media and the “nothing is real” phase
13:00 — Howling Mutant as the voice of reasonable political centrism
14:15 — “Fell for it again” as a universal political response
15:30 — Denying reality, Trump, Iran, and internet factional cope
16:40 — Iran war discourse as an online argument
18:40 — The Asuka/Evangelion pronunciation scandal
20:20 — Fraser Payne, AI animation, and right-wing creative talent
21:30 — Why political comedy limits your audience
22:30 — Taboo, edginess, and why censorship can make jokes more powerful
24:00 — Bleeping, mystique, and the paywalled uncensored version
25:00 — The Jerky Boys and when censorship ruins comedy
26:00 — Sponsors: Polymarket, Zcash, CitizenX, Passage/Network Press
26:30 — Monetizing Goodreads influence
28:00 — Reviewing books without writing actual reviews
29:30 — How many books has Howling Mutant read?
30:00 — AI art, uncanny aesthetics, and online animation
31:30 — Old coworkers, real-life fallout, and getting tagged by strangers
34:15 — NYC Ferry coworkers react
35:00 — Howling explains the doxxing attempt in more detail
36:55 — Abortion, political labeling, and being misread by journalists
38:25 — Contacting an ex-girlfriend’s work email
39:30 — Watching the article spread in real time
40:00 — Defenders accidentally making everything louder
40:30 — The correct etiquette when someone gets doxxed
42:00 — Anonymous accounts, real names, and public exposure
44:40 — Saila’s niche interests and the podcast’s recurring topic spirals
45:00 — Lifting, AI, dieting, and weirdly specific online expertise
46:30 — Fitness takes, waist ratios, and YouTube-short pseudoscience
48:30 — Closing bit: getting doxxed live
49:15 — “Did they post my one redeeming quality?”

]]><![CDATA[Infinite Doomscroll Capitalism: Market Efficiency or Eternal Torture? w/ signüll]]>https://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/infinite-doomscroll-capitalism-markethttps://plausiblydeniable.substack.com/p/infinite-doomscroll-capitalism-marketSat, 02 May 2026 23:32:27 GMTIn this episode of Plausibly Deniable, we’re joined by signüll for a long, chaotic, and occasionally coherent tour through the machinery of modern life: why every internet product seems designed to remove friction, how that changes dating, beauty, commerce, politics, and media, and whether “market efficiency” just means eternal algorithmic torture with better UX.

We start with testosterone labs, 17-foot ceilings, haggling rituals, and the social function of friction, then move into the bigger question: what happens when capitalism and the internet make everything easier, faster, cheaper, more liquid, and more optimized?

Along the way: Costco as super-capitalism, preventative Botox, AI slop as privacy technology, AI-first phones, startup storytelling, Trump as an attention-market phenomenon, the collapse of institutional agenda-setting, why Apple still feels sane, why Windows feels cursed, OpenAI side quests, consumer vs enterprise markets, wellness culture, hotness inflation, prediction markets, Zcash, crypto business models, and what X should actually be.

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00:00 — Testosterone labs, scam pricing, and 17-foot ceilings
07:00 — Welcome to Plausibly Deniable; signüll joins the show
08:30 — Podcasting as social disease and the horror of always being recorded
10:00 — Internet technology, liquidity, and the removal of friction
11:00 — Diet cherry cream Coke and the tyranny of infinite consumer choice
12:00 — Dating apps, dual opt-in systems, and why dating is not shopping
14:15 — Amazon, Walmart, Costco, and the absurd abundance of modern retail
16:25 — Capitalism vs optimization: when removing friction changes the activity itself
18:30 — When friction is valuable instead of wasteful
20:00 — Hair transplants, masseter Botox, and cosmetic medicine as consumer product
22:45 — Botox shops, software-guided injections, and aesthetics as infrastructure
24:30 — Neurotoxins, health tradeoffs, and the bridge-jumping problem
27:10 — Preventative Botox and the creation of new demand
29:00 — Mundane evil, incentive structures, and why nobody has to be “nefarious”
31:30 — Cambridge Analytica, political targeting, and whether persuasion works
35:00 — AI slop, privacy, and using LLMs to obscure authorship
42:00 — What an AI-first phone might actually look like
44:00 — Live AI home screens, product UX, and making AI useful for normal people
49:00 — Startup storytelling, building in public, and launching products people understand
56:00 — Trump, attention markets, and saying the unsayable out loud
63:00 — Group chats, agenda-setting, and the replacement of institutions by accounts
70:00 — Why big companies struggle to build bold consumer products
77:00 — Google, org charts, and shipping internal dysfunction
84:00 — Rome, Greece, AGI, and whether anything ever really happens
91:00 — Apple, Windows, product discipline, and why not getting worse is underrated
98:00 — OpenAI side quests, Sora, compute bottlenecks, and focus
105:00 — Consumer vs enterprise markets and the problem of selling people things they don’t need
112:00 — Wellness culture, signaling, and looking good as the ultimate human interface
119:00 — Mechanisms over morality: why people behave the way they do
126:00 — Men getting Botox and the normalization of aesthetic optimization
133:00 — Hotness inflation, attraction, and whether society gets better when everyone gets more attractive
140:00 — Haggling, scams, and paying too much as a lifestyle
147:00 — Prediction markets, “free money,” and Polymarket brain
148:00 — Zcash, privacy, and private money
154:00 — Crypto revenue, sustainable business models, and what value crypto actually creates
161:00 — X incentives, viral payouts, and teaching everyone to copy the worst behavior
164:25 — Closing thoughts and spiritual obligation to subscribe

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